ALICE Anniversary and Colloquium on Conversation

Digital World Research Centre, University of Surrey

COLLOQUIUM ON CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS
and celebration of ALICE's first ten years online

Guildford, UK, 10am-6pm on 25 November 2005

An informal one-day meeting will be held at which invited
speakers will give short presentations on aspects of
conversational systems and participants will demonstrate
their developed and experimental programs.

Conversational systems are intelligent computer interfaces
that allow users to interact in plain English, either text
or spoken. They represent an advance in human-computer
interaction and have wide-ranging potential applications.

The leading open-source conversational system,
ALICE, is now
ten years old and has won the Loebner Prize three times. Dr
Richard Wallace, creator of ALICE and its associated
language
AIML,
will give a presentation and demonstrate the
latest developments in this ongoing project.

The organizers have invited participants working in this
field to bring working demonstrations, which will be demonstrated on
their own hardware, and to take part in discussions of the
current state of the art, known problems, and possible
future directions.

The meeting is open to all and there will be no charge.
However, numbers are limited, so if you wish to attend
please contact bots@dwrc.org.uk to reserve a place,
describing your interest and any proposed demonstration.